@buckeyeelo: "Laid-off religious workers denied jobless benefits
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 By Steven G. Vegh
The Virginian-Pilot
� May 18, 2009
God may provide, but the state may not when it comes to unemployment
benefits for employees laid off by churches, synagogues and religious
groups.
Carol Bronson discovered that a few months ago after she lost her
secretarial job at Temple Emanuel synagogue in Virginia Beach. Bronson
assumed she could draw unemployment benefits, but when she filed a claim,
she was denied.
It was a hard way to learn that under Virginia law, tax exemptions for
religious organizations include freedom from paying unemployment taxes. The
groups still must pay Social Security and withholding taxes.
"I had no idea that there would not be any benefits for me after leaving my
job," said Bronson, who worked at the synagogue for two years.
Neither did Rabbi Howard Mandell of Temple Emanuel. The synagogue had no
knowledge of Virginia tax law when it decided on a layoff, he wrote in an
e-mail.
Budget cuts, including layoffs, are one way religious congregations are
coping with a recession that has slashed their income from investments or
contributions.
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    @larryhewi: "<quote>
Most don't.
My town, in SC, provides more than a million dollars in free services to 
the literally dozens of religious organizations in the area, services 
ranging from electricity, sewer  and water infrastructure and reduced 
rates(public utilities), roads, police and fire, even land (a mega 
church got a sweet deal in a  land swap), landscaping (two downtown 
churches got the roads, parking lots, and open areas around them 
upgraded, including the addition of special curbside dropoffs, at a cost 
of $130000 to taxpayers and $0 to them), traffic control, and even free 
parking for parishioners at municipal lots during services (one downtown 
church's parishioners even park illegally at an adjacent bank's lot, 
closing access to the bank's atms and night drops).
Larry"
    @witchypoo: ""Don Martin" <email_address> wrote in message 
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But, won't god provide?
Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
BAAWA Knight
#1557"
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